Tag: emotional

"Some monsters are made to protect. But never to be loved." Annelly He found us. Now James and I are on the run-again. But it's not just the danger we're fleeing. It's the wreckage of what we almost had. I know what he's risking-what he's already sacrificed. Part of me still believes in him. Still wants him. But with every mile between us and the home he built, I feel him slipping into someone colder, harder... someone I might not be able to reach. And I can't stop wondering if I'm the one who broke him. Maybe loving James was always going to end this way-with me watching him fall apart, and knowing I'm the reason. James I promised to protect her. But no one told me it would mean losing everything that matters. My home. My brother. My chance with her. Now we're running, and with every step, I leave more of myself behind-including the man I was trying to become. The one she almost believed in. But he's not enough anymore. What she needs now is the version of me I swore I'd never be again. The monster I buried. The one who knows how to end this. Unleashing him might save her life, but it will destroy the one thing I can't bear to lose. Maybe loving her was always going to end like this-with me becoming the monster she could never love. In the Broken Redemption World, as danger closes in, love may not be enough to save them-and sacrificing the future they dreamed of might be the only way to survive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is Book 2 of James & Annelly's Broken Redemption arc. For the complete experience, start with Book 1: Broken Misery.

He was born to rule. She was forged in fire. But falling in love might be their undoing. I know how to survive. I've been doing it since the day my mother taught me to hide in closets and wait for the monsters to pass. Trusting people? Loving them? That's how you get broken. So when Shane Montgomery-Mr. Golden Boy with his perfect smile and world of privilege-offered to help me, I didn't believe him. Why would someone like him care about someone like me? I'm barely holding my life together-working double shifts, sleeping too little, chasing a future no one thinks I deserve. But Shane is relentless. Not just with tutoring or grades, but with me. With seeing me. Touching the parts of me I've kept buried because needing someone is dangerous. And wanting him? That's a cliff I can't afford to fall from. Still... I'm slipping. Because when he looks at me like I'm his everything-like I'm the only thing he needs, like our love is fated, written into the very fabric of the universe-I almost believe him. And if I allow myself to fall-really fall-it won't just be into his arms. It'll be straight into the wreckage of everything I've fought so hard to survive. In the first installment of the Twisted Path Series, opposites collide, secrets unravel, and two star-crossed lovers cling to each other in a world determined to tear them apart.

Choosing her cost me everything I'd ever loved... including her. I had everything a guy could ask for, a loving family, the perfect small-town life, and a promising future I had worked hard for. It should have been enough. She was off-limits, my parent's best friend's daughter, practically my sister. I fought my feelings, pretending our soul-deep connection didn't exist. When she confessed she felt the same, I pushed her away, believing our friendship mattered more than temporary infatuation. That she agreed should have come as a relief, but it left me with this void I didn't know how to fill. It's what drove me to the bonfire that night. Right there, with our friends as witnesses, I claimed her. Told her I loved her and made her promises I shouldn't have made. Hours later, it all came crashing down in a whirlwind of fire and ashes. That one split-second choice to go after a girl that wasn't meant for me cost me everything I loved. I never should have crossed that line or given in. It's why she'll forever be my greatest love and deepest regret. This tragic story is the beginning of our end...